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Rh sense the sun appears to rise and set, and the earth to stand still; but Science contradicts this, and explains the solar system as working on a different plan. All the evidences of physical sense, or of the knowledge obtained thereby, must yield to Science, to the immortal sense of things.

Question. — Will you explain sickness, and show how it is to be healed?

Answer. — Like a surgeon bandaging the limb and arranging plasters, before proceeding to amputation, the

author has been preparing to answer this question. The answer involves her first discovery, the discovery that enabled her to give a demonstration of Christian Science, or healing through Mind, the method whereof is outlined in a preceding chapter, on Christian Science Practice.

Mind must be found superior to all the beliefs of the five corporeal senses, and able to destroy all ills. Sickness

is an illusion, to be annihilated by Mind, Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Truth takes away this physical sense of error, just as it removes a sense, of moral or mental error. That the body is material, and that matter should suffer, — these propositions seem perfectly real and natural in dreams. Every sense of life in matter is but a dream, and not the reality of Being.

If Jesus could waken Lazarus from the dream of

death, this proves that the Christ can improve on a lost sense. Who shall dare to doubt this consummate test of the power and willingness